Alpha Push-pull Pots

About This Item

Can be used as a normal volume or tone control, or control pickup phasing, series/parallel switching, coil-taps, and more.

#1215 250K-ohm

Shaft diameter

6mm split shaft, coarse knurling

Thread

M7 x 0.75

Threaded portion height

3/8"

(9.52mm)

Required mounting hole diameter

9/32"

(7.14mm)

Required body cavity depth

1-1/8"

(28.58mm)

Two mounting nuts, flat washer and lock washer included

#1216 500K-ohm

Shaft diameter

6mm split shaft, coarse knurling

Thread

M7 x 0.75

Threaded portion height

3/8"

(9.52mm)

Required mounting hole diameter

9/32"

(7.14mm)

Required body cavity depth

1-1/8"

(28.58mm)

Two mounting nuts, flat washer and lock washer included

#1213 500K-ohm,long shaft pot for Les Paul®

Shaft diameter

6mm split shaft, coarse knurling

Thread

3/8 x 32

Threaded portion height

3/4"

(19.05mm)

Required mounting hole diameter

3/8"

(9.52mm)

Required body cavity depth

1-1/8"

(28.58mm)

Two mounting nuts, flat washer and lock washer included

250K vs. 500K
Generally, 500K-ohm pots are used with humbuckers and 250Ks are used with single-coil pickups. You can use any value you like, but a 250K will give a slightly warmer tone than a 500K pot. The 250K pot bleeds off some of the high frequencies to ground. A 1 Meg-ohm pot bleeds off even less than a 500K pot, so if you want to hear your guitar "wide open" you may want to try one.

1-meg pots are also ideal for piezo pickups, as the ultra high impedance piezo element is more adversely effected by conventional, lower-value pots than magnetic pickups.

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smaller diameter than prior unit.

I bought this as a replacement for one of the pots on my guitar. Same brand and style of push pull but the shaft diameter is smaller. Old one required a 3/8 inch hole. New one is just over 1/4 inch. I made a small bushing to compensate and it works fine.

Good Buy!

These were the only long shaft, push/pull 500k pots that I could find. But they work great and I'm glad to have them in my 2014 Gibson Les Paul Classic. Thanks to these pots I now have the Jimmy Page wiring in my guitar.

Good stuff

Really enjoy the options these pots provide. Nice smooth positive operation, no glitchyness. Feels like a very high quality product. Definitely recommended if you want to experiment with the tonal options of coil-splitting, reversing, etc.

Does the job!

Replaced my PRS SE Tremonti''s 500k tone control pots with these push/pull pots, to enable coil split of the Duncan SH2n and SH4 humbuckers I installed. These pots are perfect for this purpose. They're quiet and their depth fits this guitar's control cavity with room to spare. Very happy with the result!